Bike Trails PA & MD. Heritage Rail Trail & Torry C Brown Rail Trail

My wife, brother and I are bicycle enthusiasts who enjoy riding the ever increasing number of rail / canal trails mostly in the Northeastern US. We also do volunteer work for NOAA by recovering US Coast & Geodetic Survey Benchmarks. We often combine these hobbies while trail riding. Information on Benchmarks is available here: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/

We have been riding these trails for over 10 years now and I decided to share some of the .GPX files I’ve created. The files were compiled using a variety of resources including:

This file is for Pennsylvania’s Heritage Rail Trail and connecting Torrey C Brown (formerly North Central Rail Trail) in Maryland. Together, these two trails take you 41 miles from York, PA. South to the suburbs of Baltimore MD.
The 21 mile Heritage Trail portion parallels the tracks of the restored New Freedom – York civil war era steam locomotive. Information on the excursion train schedule is available here: http://steamintohistory.com/home

Also included in this file is the 1.7 mile paved Hollow
Creek Trail in nearby Seven Valleys PA.

These .GPX files include tracks for trails, waypoints for significant features along trails, parking areas, bicycle shops along or adjacent to trails, campgrounds and USCGS Benchmarks along or near trails. All waypoints include elevation data for use in plotting trail slope and planning outings.